Vega Star

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FC: Vega Star

1: The mother of Vega was a beautiful Nebula. A Nebula is a cloud of gases and dust mainly hydrogen and helium which clumps together due to gravitational forces the particles become very compact. Once it is hot enough, nuclear fusion happens and Vega was born.

2: "Twinkle twinkle little star; do you know how loved you are?"

3: A region of condensing matter will begin to heat up and start to glow forming Protostars.

4: "A Baby's Love Is Best Of All" | The star begins it energy,stopping it from contracting even more and causes it to shine. It is now a Main Sequence Star.

5: The core is hot enough for the helium to fuse to form carbon, The outer layers begin to expand, cool and shine less brightly. It is now a Red Giant.

6: The helium core runs outs, and the outer layers drift away from the core as a gaseous shell, this gas that surrounds the core is called a Planetary Nebula.

7: The remaining core is now in its final stages. the core become a White Dwarf the eventually cools & dims. When it stops shining, the now dead star is called a Black Dwarf. | Vega will grow up to become 1 billion years old.